Professional Profile
Dr. LeeAnn Racz is a Board-Certified Environmental Engineer and Certified Industrial Hygienist and a member of ToxStrategies’ Exposure Sciences practice. With a background in environmental health and workplace exposure assessment, Dr. Racz completed a 23-year career with the US Air Force before entering the consulting arena. She is a subject-matter expert in environmental health risk assessment, industrial hygiene, environmental engineering, and drinking-water and wastewater evaluation and protection. She has led a large group of health professionals and commanded a medical readiness squadron during a military career that spanned eight Air Force bases across the US, in South Korea, and in the UK.
Dr. Racz has assembled and led numerous teams in areas that include industrial hygiene and environmental compliance education, emergency response readiness, industrial hygiene research, response and recovery at aircraft crash and other accident sites, noise sampling and analysis, aerospace medicine services, and optimization of medical readiness. She has also directed radiation safety programs and managed radiation surveys. As a consultant, Dr. Racz has worked with a global manufacturing company (17 locations) to develop and implement pandemic protective measures. She has also supported program management and published technical handbooks on environmental and occupational health.
Dr. Racz serves as an ABET (formerly, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) Program Evaluator in environmental engineering and as an advisor to the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES). She is an editor of seven technical handbooks, author of 20 scientific publications and five other technical papers, and has presented at more than 30 scientific conferences.